Nickelodeon Alums Devon Werkheiser and Giovonnie Samuels Claim They ‘Never’ Got Residuals for Work

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Everything wasn’t all smiles and slime at Nickelodeon for some of its former stars they claim they’ve never received residuals for their work on the children’s network.“Picketing today at Paramount.

Paramount’s parent company is Viacom, the same parent company of Nickelodeon, where for 20 years Ned’s has been sold all over the world, and I’ve never seen one residual or royalty from it due to bad deal at the time,” Devon Werkheiser, who starred as Ned Bigby on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, revealed in a Wednesday, July 19, TikTok post.Werkheiser, 32, claimed that the cast couldn’t negotiate their contracts during the show’s 2004 to 2007 run because of their deals with SAG-AFTRA at the time. “That’s what’s being fought for right now, residuals for streaming services,” he continued. “Streaming services are able to make money, pay their executives millions of dollars and create an entire business without paying the very artists who create the art and their business decent residuals.”He went on to call streaming services’ refusal to change the current residual pay practices “horses—t” before encouraging fans to support SAG-AFTRA and WGA amid their ongoing strikes. “Imagine a world where businesses that made money actually included their workers in the business model, where everyone benefitted,” he stated. “Wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing?

Support the strike.”Much like Werkheiser, Nickelodeon alum Giovonnie Samuels revealed via a Wednesday TikTok upload that she never received any residuals for her work on the comedy series All That.Responding to a fan question that read, “Smh even if they were to put your seasons of All That on Netflix, you still wouldn’t get your residuals??